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Monday, January 28, 2013

Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia De Luce Book 5) by Alan Bradley
Published by: Delacorte
Publication Date: January 29th, 2013
Format: Hardcover, 400 PagesTo Buy

The official patter:
"Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is
used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her
laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries.
What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the
five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of
Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb.
Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what
she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of
Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and
inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why
would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible
Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s
never such thing as an open-and-shut case."

Another
great entry in the Flavia lexicon that left me desperate for the next book. Come on Alan, write faster!

The
brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for
books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than
love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiancé and living
out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But
before that, Pippa has two weeks to experience all the rest—fourteen
days to research the exciting parts of life. It's not much time, and to
do it right she needs a guide familiar with London's darker corners.
She needs . . . a Scoundrel

She needs Cross, the clever, controlled partner in London's most
exclusive gaming hell, with a carefully crafted reputation for
wickedness. But reputations often hide the darkest secrets, and when the
unconventional Pippa boldly propositions him, seeking science without
emotion, she threatens all he works to protect. He is tempted to give
Pippa precisely what she wants . . . but the scoundrel is
more than he
seems, and it will take every ounce of his willpower to resist giving
the lady more than she ever imagined."

I have been hearing nothing bit praise for this book all around the blogesphere, so why not check it out? I know I will.

The official patter:
"Babylon Steel, former avatar of the goddess of sex and war,
currently owner of the Scarlet Lantern, the best brothel on Scalentine,
city of portals, has been offered a job; as bodyguard to Enthemmerlee,
the latest candidate for the Council of Incandress; and as spy for the
Diplomatic Section, the barely-acknowledged government of Scalentine.

She doesn’t want it. Incandress is on the verge of civil war.
Enthemmerlee represents the hopes or fears of a large portion of its
population and is a prime target for assassination. And on Scalentine
racial tensions and economic stresses are boiling up, with Babylon’s
lover, Chief Bitternut, trying to keep the lid on.

But
circumstances conspire to send her to Incandress. There, what with
attempting to turn Enthemmerlee’s useless household guard into a
disciplined fighting force, dodging the Moral Statutes, the unwilling
presence of a very annoyed member of the Diplomatic Section and the need
to keep both herself and her client alive, things become rather too
interesting. And that’s before Babylon realises that the situation is
far worse than she thought, and is driven to a choice that will have
far-reaching consequences..."

Recently I have been intrigued and think I will read the first in this Babylon Steel series, this being the second...

The official patter:
"It is said that opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna
Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son—and enforcer—of the
leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant Alpha.
While Anna, an Omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.

When the FBI requests the pack’s help on a local serial-killer case,
Charles and Anna are sent to Boston to join the investigation. It soon
becomes clear that someone is targeting the preternatural. And now Anna
and Charles have put themselves right in the killer’s sights…"

If you haven't read this book yet, now's your chance, nice new paperback... also, if you haven't read this, why am I still talking to you, Patricia Briggs is awesome.